Is there an HLSL plugin available for Visual Studio 2005?

Question

Something that at least would add code syntax coloring?

HLSL 3 preferably.

Answer 1

Actually, there is. It is called InteliShade and can be found at http://intelishade.net/

Answer 2

Intelishade Seems to work well, Used it while working with the XNA framework, Still suck at coding shaders tho >.>

Answer 3

The InteliShade website appears to be dead in the water, unfortunately. While I have not yet found another plugin to add hlsl highlighting, I did find some manual instructions on gamedev.net to add the syntax highlighting definitions to Visual Studio.

You have to download the CG Toolkit from the nVidia site. Then in the folder \NVIDIA Corporation\Cg\msdev_syntax_highlighting\ its gonna be a file called usertype.dat then you will have to do this..

1. Copy the usertype.dat file to \Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE
2. Open up the registry editor and go to the following location - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Languages\File Extensions
3. Copy the default value from the .cpp key.
4. Create a new key under the File Extensions with the name of .cg
5. Paste the value you just copied into the default value.
6. Restart Visual Studio and your shaders should now have syntax highlighting.

and it will be all set.